>> hi. i am cory with san francisco and we're doing stay safe and we're going to talk about what shelter in place or safe enough to stay in your home means. we're here at the urban center on mission street in san francisco and joined by carla, the deputy director of spur and one of the persons who pushed this shelter in place and safe enough to stay concept and we want to talk about what it means and why it's important to san francisco. >> as you know the bay area as

63% chance of having a major earthquake and it's serious and going to impact a lot of people and particularly people in san francisco because we live on a major fault so what does this mean for us? part of what it means is that potentially 25% of san francisco's building stock will be uninhibit tabl and people can't stay in their homes after an earthquake. they may have to go to shelters or leave entirely and we don't want that to happen. >> we want a building stock to encourage them to stay in the homes and encourage them to stay and not relocate to other locations and shelters. >> that's right so that means the housing needs to be safe enough to stay and we have been focused in trying to define

what that means and you as a former building official knows better than anybody the code says if an earthquake happens it won't kill you but doesn't necessarily say that can you stay in your home and we set out to define what that might mean and you know because you built this house we're in now and this shows what it's like to be in a place safe enough to stay. it's not going to be perfect. there maybe cracks in the walls and not have gas or electricity within a while but can you essentially camp out within your unit. what's it going to take to get the housing stock up to this standard? we spent time talking about this and one of the building types we talk about was soft

story buildings and the ground floor is vulnerable because there are openings for garages or windows and during the earthquake we saw in the marina they went right over and those are -- >> very vulnerable buildings. >> very and there are a lot of apartment buildings in san that that are like that. >> and time to. >> >> retrofit the buildings so people can stay in them after the earthquake. >> what do they need? do they need information? do they need incentives? mandates? >> that's a good question. i think it starts with information. people think that new buildings are earthquake proof and don't understand the performance the building will have so we want a transparent of letting people know is my

building going to be safe in it after an earthquake? is my building so dangers i should be afraid of being injured? so developing a ranking system for buildings would be very important and i think for some of the larger apartment buildings that are soft story we need a mandatory program to fix the buildings, not over night and not without financial help or incentive, but a phased program over time that is reasonable so we can fix those buildings, and for the smaller soft story buildings and especially in san francisco and the houses over garages we need information and incentives and coaxing the people along and each of the owners want their house to be safe enough. >> we want the system and not just mandate everybody. >> that's right. >> i hear about people talking

about this concept of resiliency. as you're fixing your knowledge you're adding to the city wide resiliency. >> >> what does that mean? >> that's a great question. what spur has done is look at that in terms of recovery and in new orleans with katrina and lost many of the people, hasn't recovered the building stock. it's not a good situation. i think we can agree and in san we want to rebuild well and quickly after a major disaster so we have defined what that means for our life lines. how do we need the gasolines to perform and water perform after an earthquake and the building stock as well, so we have the goal of 95% of our homes to be ready for shelter in place after a major earthquake, and that way

people can stay within the city. we don't lose our work force. we don't lose the people that make san francisco so special. we keep everybody here and that allow us to recover our economy, and everything because it's so interdependent. >> so that is a difficult goal but i think we can achieve it over the long time so thank you very much for hosting us and hosting this great exhibit, and hank you very much for joining

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anywhere in the united states it's at the amazing statement we're not trying to be flashy or shocking just trying to create something new and original were >> one of the things about the conduct our you enter and turn your your back and just so the orchestra. the most contrary composer of this time if you accountability his music you would think he's a camera come important he become ill and it was crazy he at the end of his life and pushed the boundary to think we're not acceptable at this point for sure it had a great influence he

was a great influence on the harmonic language on the contemporary up to now. i thought it would be interesting because they have e he was contemporary we use him on this and his life was you kill our wife you get poisons all those things are great stories for on opera. i was leaving behind a little bit which those collaborative dancers i was really trying to focus on opera. a friend of mine said well, what would you really want to do i said opera what is it not opera parallel. why isn't it are that i have the support now we can do that.

i realized that was something that wasn't being done in san francisco no other organization was doing this as opposed to contemporary we are very blessed in san francisco to have organizations well, i thought that was going to be our speciality >> you create a conceptual idea for setting the opera and you spear ahead and work with the other sdierndz to create an overview vision that's the final product felt opera. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i was very inspired to work with him because the way he looked at the key is the way i looked at sports looking at the

daily. >> so much our mandate is to try to enter disis particular work there's great dancers and theatre actresses and choirs we've worked with and great video artists is a great place to collect and collaborate. i had a model they have a professionally music yes, ma'am assemble and as a student i benefited from being around this professional on and on soccer ball and as a conductor i'd be able to work with them and it's helped my growth i had a dream of having a professional residential on and on soccer ball to be an imperial >> it operates as a laboratory

we germ a national the ideas technically and work with activity artists and designers and video all over the on any given project to further the way we tell stories to improve our ability to tell stories on stage. that's part of the opera lab >> i was to investigate that aspect of renaissance and new work so that's why this piece it is important it was a renaissance composer. >> there were young people that are not interested in seeing traditional opera and like the quality and it's different it has a story telling quality

every little detail is integrated and helps to capture the imagination and that's part of the opera how we can use those colors into the language of today. >> so one of the great things of the stories of opera and story combined with opera music it allows people to let go and be entertained and enjoy the music instead of putting on headphones. >> that's what is great about art sometimes everyone loves it because you have to, you know, really great you have to have both some people don't like it and some people do we're concerned about that. >> it's about thirty something out there that's risky.

you know, disliked by someone torn apart and that's the whole point of what we're drying to do >> you never take this for granted you make sure it is the best if you can. >> ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪. >> all right. well good morning to all of you seven hundred and 50 of you welcome to our annual san francisco structures forum i'm mar i'm the publish of san francisco business times i have

someone i want you to meet this is our breaking news of this week i want you to meet corey wee bit beggar our new real estate resort he i've been talking to several of you so corey good job for the advanced work you've gotten stories going now have you have a face call him and we consider you all sources this is corey we're happy to have him he's smart and curious again call corey real estate is an important beat to the san francisco business times back to welcoming all of you, we have a great program good morning and thank you for being here on behalf of our spokesperson mr. hampton we're going to hear from our

mayor this morning and from a group of developers who will discuss the force and projects that are shaping san francisco they're to give us insight into current and coming challenges maybe things that have made the headlines as early as today and faced by the ralph transforming city the challenges that are faced by the people like them that build and develop the projects that shape us we're going to dove into how san francisco is dealing with the friction and the conflicts of this growing how we're dealing with an inadequate affordable housing and space with the skyrocketing costs are driving companies and families out of san francisco and how is this

city dealing with the backlash against the tech companies that are flooul the growth and the developers that are in some ways preventing from it as the developer continue to transform this city they gravel with old foes with old and new limitations and with the need for sound planning to match the growth so those of you who have been coming to the structures our plan today to have a little bit less of a presentation you know the show-and-tell and more of a conversation with the panel of developers they each have some great things to show you and specific areas they're developing. >> put that in context and we're going to have a great conversation we'll invite you to send up our questions

before we get to our discussion we'll hear from the mayor he'll look at how to build affordability into the equation thank you to our sponsors they come every year we we appreciate them thank you to shepard mullan we know that his lawyers have complex actions and hear from joe real estate partner in a few moments. >> thank you to our sponsors ac could systems and also right in front of me, of course, eco designs hundred and 50 types of projects including the iconic projects like san francisco

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the screen we appreciated they're being part of the program too i want to thank our partnering associations of san francisco with mark and s i o and if you are i also want to thank the san francisco chamber and dennis cunningham from the center of economic development thanks to all the groups from by the name of i promised i would mention an important initiative even with the development boom there's a challenge it is a real estate talent crutch with baby boomers retiring and many professionals not filling the jobs and they're they've developed an initiative they want to involve you you've teamed up with san francisco

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comes out twice a week we do it 23450u7ks with the silicon valley's business journal that's free if you wanted to sign up for that and we're with tweeting this morning where's crystal it's on the screen okay. so join in the conversation now to open our program set the stage for our personalities please welcome the folks if shepard mullan. >> there you are shep (clapping.) >> thank you, mary and well, on behalf of the shepard milling listens it is one of the most farther events of the year it confuses an opportunity to look

at what's going in the city and industry but more than it give us an opportunity to step back and consider how real estate development is shaping the city and how people of the city and the social dynamics they're creating and it's constantly changing and shaping our economic there's a policy geek in all of us this is a perfect opportunity to look at it so the san francisco best estimates thank you for preparing this opportunity to us every year and to our other sponsors and speakers for making it possible i was thinking about what to say today, i of the remembering that 7 or so years ago i made the observation that the population center of san francisco was clearly moving south and east

at this point the main drivers were mission bay, hunters point shipyard, yes. the new transbay terminal was on the books and in the works many vacant caltrain lots but i don't know that any of us expected the kind of explosion of development we're now seeing driven in large part by the tech industry by their desire to be in the city to be a part of this city and in the real estate needs both the residential and office and other that's generating i have to laugh we've come a long way from the point in time we were trying to lure office development south of market but

offering development rights nobody has talked about that concept in a long time more recently i've made the objection that bicycles are part of our world to developers need to consider bicycle parking in residential and office structures it is rapidly bam more than that that's not a fad it's going away but very much a part of urban culture and planning for bicycles and pedestrian safety is a part of our streetscapes and very much part of what our departments are dealing with we see evidences of the continuing changes around us some of them happening far more quickly and it's a very petty

environment but mary pointed out it brings a number of fundamental questions primary among those is how do we meet the housing needs of an economically diverse population and maintain it with the diverse population and accommodate new ways even if doing business airbnb, lift uber who knows what's next in terms of new registration and a w where do we draw the lines on the new registration those are a few of the challenges all good challenges facing the city i looked at it to to what the mayor and distinguished panel has to say and i know you do too (clapping.) thank you gene and thanks to

shepard mullan we are also delighted to have mayor ed lee with us to guide us with this violation vision and look at the priorities and outline some of the solutions in the city he's been proud of the thirty i lost track of the cranes in the air and the innovation hub of san francisco they're concerned, of course, about housing and what we can do to keep our economy vibrate i've seen the discussion that is up for this morning we love you ma mayor ed lee e mayor ed lee so welcome and thank you for being with us mayor ed lee (clapping.) thank you, mary and thank you to the san francisco business times for the invitation to speak about th